EWTN Global Catholic Network, in its 36th year, is the largest religious media network in the world. EWTN’s 11 networks broadcast in multiple languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week to over 268 million television households in more than 145 countries and territories. Platforms include direct broadcast satellite television and radio services; radio services transmitted through SIRIUS/XM, iHeart Radio, and almost 500 domestic and international AM & FM radio affiliates; a worldwide shortwave radio station; the largest Catholic website in the U.S.; electronic and print news services, including The National Catholic Register newspaper, and two global wire services; as well as a publishing arm.

In the early 1960s, Mother M. Angelica, a Poor Clare nun, cloistered
and dedicated to the perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed
Sacrament, fulfilling a promise made to our Lord, founded Our Lady
of Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama, in the Deep South. In one
of her early evangelizing efforts Mother Angelica began writing
"mini-books", short teachings on a variety of religious themes. As
the popularity of these "mini-books" grew, her nuns obtained a
printing press and started duplicating and distributing them
worldwide.

Soon, Mother began receiving requests
for speaking engagements, evolving into a video series of her talks
taped at a local Birmingham television station. The Poor Clare nun,
who knew little of the world of technology and communication, then
built her own TV studio on monastery property in Irondale, which
today is home to Eternal Word Television Network. What began 24
years ago as a garage-turned-TV-studio is now a state of the art
audiovisual complex funded totally by gifts from individuals and
groups and visited annually by thousands of pilgrims.

EWTN Global Catholic Network airs
family and religious programming from a Catholic point of view in
English and Spanish. Providing more than 80% original programming,
EWTN offers inspiring talk shows, entertaining children's animation,
exclusive teaching series, live coverage of Church events, and
thought-provoking documentaries.

Beyond the broadcast vision, however,
first and foremost, the spiritual heart of the EWTN mission is to
bring the Eternal Word, Jesus Christ, to all. The religious centers
of the network are visited daily by pilgrims who travel to Irondale
to worship in the chapel or visit the breathtakingly beautiful
Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama.
Visitors of all faiths are invited to "come away by yourself to a
quiet place, and rest awhile" (Mark 6:31) and to pray before the
Most Blessed Sacrament, adored and loved perpetually by the
cloistered nuns now living at Our Lady of Angels Monastery in
Hanceville or by the faithful in Irondale.

Without making plans for the future,
Mother Angelica, relying completely on Divine Providence, believes
in going "where God opens the door." It is that deep and constant
faith in the Lord, which has called Mother Angelica to act on God's
invitation to do the impossible, through Him, who accomplishes the
miraculous.